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Re: gnulib unnecessarily enforces git as requirement


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: gnulib unnecessarily enforces git as requirement
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:22:30 +0100

Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> Octave (http://www.octave.org) utilizes gnulib and a recent change in
> gnulib breaks the build for MinGW platform, because gnulib now
> enforces git to be available at bootstrap stage.
> The change was introduced in a patch discussed in the following thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-11/msg00148.html
>
> I am using msys as build environment and git is not available there.

>From what I recall, git has been available on msys for some time.
Have you looked at this?

  http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/



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